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The Portland daily press., 1887-06-25
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While Captain Booker, of r. E. Lee Post
Of Confederate veterans, was dining with
old comrades at Faneuil Hall during the
visit to Boston, he raised his glass in the air
as signal to waiter for more wine. A
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-25

DIRECTORS.
EDWARD II. SECcoMB West Newton. Mass
Hon. JOSIAH ii. DRUMMoND, Portland, Maine
john E. DEWITT. Portland Maine.
HENRY G. HUTCHINs, Boston, Mass
HON. PERCIvAL BoNNEY, Portland. Me.
HON. MARQUIS +. KING, Portland, Me.
THOMAS A. FOSTER, NJ. d., Portland, Me.
Hon. FRED. X. RICHARDS, Rockport, Me.
GEORGE l.. DEBLOIs, Boston, Mass.
EDWARD A. MOVES, Portland, Me.
HON. FREDERICK ROBBIE, Gorham, Me.
FRANK Z. ALLEN, Portland, Me.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-25
ALBANY LAW sCuOOL

V,HIRTY-sEvENTH year begins September
Il 9th, 1887. For circulars or special infcrma-
lion, address HORACE L. SMITH, LII. D., Dean
Albany, N. Y. je17eod1Ow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

ONE faction of Pennsylvania Democrats
wishes to indorse Cleveland for denomination
at the approaching State convention. The
politicians who trying to engineer the
affair argue that such action will give him
boom in 1888. There is, however, dreadful
uncertainty as to the course Mr.. Randall
huential gentleman announces his intentions
no definite programme for the convention can
be decided on. 1t is singular, by the way,
how much Importance administration leaders
attach to such Endorsements when Mr.. Cleve-
land is concerned, while at the same time
they are insisting that the resolutions of the
Ohio Republicans in favor of Senator Sher-
man have no political significance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
THE TALLY-SHEET CRIME.
More Denunciation of the Jury's Action ID
Failing to Convict the Defendants
GUILTY THOUGH NOT coNvIcrEp.


Terre Haute Mail: .Although the iurv failed
convict the sally-sheet rorgers they stand con.
victed in the eyes of the community and the
State The crime imputed to them was com.
mitted and they are in fact guilty. though no,
found So The facts brought to light by thu
.rial may result in deterrins others from CON-
hitting, or undertaking to commit similar
crimes.
SOME GooD~AccoMPLlsHED.
Greensburg Review: 1.-The trial Of the In.
dianapos election conspirators was not alto.
gether without good results. The truth was
told about the gang. and the peorfe of Marion
county and the State of Indiana know what
desperate set they have to deal with. This
knowledge alone is worth the cost of the trials
LOT OF scoUNDRELs-
Charlottesville Journal: TIE bar Of public
opinion has convicted the whole gang as a set
of scoundrels. every one of whom should be in
the penitentiary. Their escape is due to the
fact that their crimes were committed in rhe in
terest of the Democratic party. And all the
Democratic boodlers are shouting amen"
NOT MANY LIKE COY.
Richmond Telegram: 1.-The Democratic
bosses at Indianapolis should see to il that their
boys no longer associate with Sammy Perkins,
for not many have the strength of character to
Withstand the effects of such contamination,
that the truly innocent Simeon Coy has estab-
80 no,-,rv,,, roson
Kendallville Standard: .'The Democratic
party of Indiana has the doubtful honor of in
augurating politics into jury trials of indicted
forgers and violators of law and order generally
THE GROWING INFAMY. ~
Lawrence MALL THE action of the Democratic
jurors in the tally sheet forgery trial is the
browning infamy of the Democratic party in this
State"
AS TO CHARACTER CoBBLERS
Muncie News: According to of tho
indianapolis character cobblers, a very vile
man may be a good Democrat"
THE PEOPLE ARE RIGHT.
Washington Gazette: ''The people believe that
Coy and his co-conspirators are guilty"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

rascal like the rest But it is often necessary
for prosecuting attorneys to avail themselves
of the services of squealers. The ends of
justice sometimes require it and there is
nothing dishonorable in doing 1t is the
duty of the prosecutor to avail himself of
every legitimate means to bring criminals to
justice and the turning of States evidence has
always been regarded as legitimate means
The truth told by participant in a crime is
as good as the truth from any other source
1t often happens that participant is the only
witness who expose the crime from be-
ginning to end and fasten it on the per-
petrators and prosecutor would fail in his
duty to the public who should refuse to avail
himself of this method of establishing his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Post-ofice Department. has refused to
name Nebraska postoffice .Old Maid"
THE Floridans are eleeful. Not day, they
say. has been intoerably hot this summer
THIRTEEN cities and 275 towns and villages of
Massachusetts are under prohibition this year
THE best ecturing sections are said to be in
the West-Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan.
Mr. MARION CRAWFORD will, it is said, return
to America in October and spend the winter
here.
"a TOAD who disgraces his own warts" is
what one Mississippi editor says in alluding to
another edito-.
COLONEL. WATTERsoN has discovered in New
York a drink composed of brandy, eggs and
coffee and called Sabbath Calm"
MRS CRAWFORD, the Paris correspondent, is
said to earn $40 900 year by her pen--the
largest sum made by any woman out of journal
ism.
To the novel colors invented for womans
clothes of crushed strawberry and whipped
cream" has been added the color of slapped
baby
THE Russian aeronaut Casloviche claims to
have at last invented perfectly navieable bal
struction. he is having the various parts of the
balloon built in different countries.
Mrs. LOUISE CHANDLER MoULToN has latelv
visited Mr.. Oscar Wilde in London. THE
Apostle of the Beautiful has," she says. "a
dainty, crsam-colored dining room especially at
tractive. / think il must be original design,
this delicate white room, white walls, white
chairs. white cabinets white shelf foot wide
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

NOTHING more horrible in the annals of
crime has occurred within many years than
the murder of the Voolfolk family in Georgia.
The details as given by the local papers
even more frightful than those narrated in the
briefer dispatches. 1t seems probable that
the suspicious of the neighbors, which point
to the step-son of Mrs. Voolfolk the perpe-
traitor, are correct, though the evidence is
purely circumstantial. Already the statement
is being made that the young man was insane,
and if he ever comes to trial this will probably
be the defense. 1t is a natural supposition
that one who could commit such a deed must
be of unsound mind, and it is to the credit of
human nature, perhaps, that such an explana-
ton is the first to suggest itself; but if the
tales concerning young Woolfolks previous
career true, devilishness of disposition
rather than insanity should be accepted as the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

IT turns out that the conviction of the
Chicago boodlers was mainly due to the
"squealing' of one of the gang and in some
respects the worst. So it was in New York
and Is apt to be generally. When rogues fall
put honest men get their dues. A ring of
political corruptionists OF boodlers is pretty
Iure to embrace one or more weak kneed men
and when driven to the wall, with the doors of
ne penitentiary open to receive them, they
are apt to turn States evidence. OF course
from the boodlers standpoint this is very dis
honorable. The boodler and the tally-sheet
forger have their own ideas of honor. The dis
honorable man is not the one who commits
crime but he who tells. According to their
code the squealer is the worst of the lot.
That depends: he may may not be. Squeal-
ing does not make him any better nor worse.
In the eyes Of honest men he is simply
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

NOTWITHSTANDING the drought Governor
Gray's boom for Vice-president seems to be
growing. Some seventy-fve Democratic pol
ago, to take several drinks and discuss the po-
litical outlook. Having done the first they
took vote on choice for Vice-president, dis
closing the fact that the Quincy and Spring
field delegations favored Total Disability
Black, while the rest were about equally di-
vided between First Assistant Postmaster
general Stevenson and Governor Gray 1t is
scrub race among Western Democrats for
second place on the ticket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

more probable cause of the act. In recent
case in this city, where the behavior of GER
tain woman became uncomfortable 70 her fam
lily, physicians recognized the existence of
"devilishness," but failed to find her insane.
1t is a condition of mind that as surely exists
in this age as in the days when the apostles
and their Master cast out devils, and it seems
unfortunate that the law does not recognize
it, in order that the innocent and peaceab BILE
might be protected. Many crime would be
prevented could such persons be put under
restraint rs we'll as actual lunatics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
THE DROUGHT

There is always disposition to exaggerate
crop failures, and just now it shows itself in
exaggerated predictions as to the disastrous re-
suits of the present drought. There is no de-
nying the fact that the drought is unusually
widespread and severe. and its present re-
suits are decidedly embarrassing, but it is not
worth while to exaggerate them or try to make
the situation out greatly worse than it really
is. individuals in particular localities will
suffer, but the country at large will hardly
feel the effects of the drought, and perhaps
three or four months hence we shall have
quite forgotten it. 1t should be remembered
we had good wheat crop, good hay crop
and good crop of early potatoes even in the
section of country now affected with drought.
Corn and late potatoes in the parched region
will be very short crop, though copious
rains within fortnight would still work a
great change. But after all, the region af-
fected by drought is small compared with the
entire country, and even worse failure of
crops than is now threatened would hardly
affect the general average. The drought
is cCnhned to portions or Indiana, ILLINOIS,
Iowa and southern Wisconsin and Michigan.
1t does not extend west Of the Mississippi at
all materially affect any portion of the
great Southwest or the Middle or Atlantic
States. The corn growing States west of the
Mississippi will produce great crops and the
aggregate corn crop of the Southern and
Southwestern States will be larger than usual.
There is no danger of a corn famine nor
probably of very high prices. The greatest
present embarrassment in the drought regions
is the scarcity of feed and water for live stock
and the scarcity of fruits and vegetables for
domestic use These are serious embarrass-
ments while they last, and it is to be hoped
they may not continue much longer. But
the present scarcity of cattle feed may be
compensated by luxuriant growth of grass
late in the fall and we'll on into winter and
late rains may yet bring an unexpected sup
ply of vegetables. Nature does not work so
blindly, after all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
COM MENT AND OPINION.

SUNsTRoKE statistics make quite temper
| ance lecture.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser
ANOTHER such Democratic victory as that in
Kentucky and the party will be undone.-At-
lanta Constitution.
In Boston they say that July was "fervid -
In this city stick to the plain Henry Ward
Beecher expression.-Phiiadelphia Call.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIs's address in nut
shell; Mr.. Cleveland is d better than his
party, but his party is bigger man than Mr..
Cleveland. Boston journal.
THE kind of coast defences which Canada
most needs to erect is fen ce with high. sharp
pickets, over which the United States defauters
cannot climb.-Buffalo Courier.
THE Indianapolis election conspirators stand
convicted before the bar Of public opinion. and
the moral effect will be tho same if perjury and
-DetI oft Tribune.
THE chain-gang stares the benevolent and
philanthropic who shall dare to teach children
of both colors in Georgia. Mr.. Grady, your
new South" is a good deal of humbug. even
in your own State.-Hartford Post
SOME species of insanity excite pity. but the
political insanity that accepts free trade in
nation where industry IS sovereign and Is the
wealth and power of the government, is the
utter insanity upon which pity would DE wasted.
and which must ever be stranger to hope.
-Phiade lphia Times Dem.
THE Democracy will again poll q minority
vote for Democratic nominee in 1888 VIII
the mugwumps again strive to convert the
minority into a majority That is the question
at issue. And it is question whose solution
will settle the status of public opinion to
mugwumpian intelligence and honesty. -Chicago
Inter Ocean.
No man can be .heIped" He must help him
self. There is only way to improve any
mans condition. and that is for him
more than he spends. The man woman who
will join that anti-poverty society will never
have any quarrel with society. The who
does not is life member OF poverty society
from which he can never resign.-Philadelphia
Press.
THE opinion is steadily gaining ground among
the thoughtful men of the Republican party
that MIR. Blaine has been the Jonah of their ship
long enough, and the necessity of unloading him
simply reduces itself TO a matter OF life death.
And such is the state of the The American
people have made up their minds that Mr.. Blaine
shall not be elected President of this Republic
and the party to which he belongs can either
accept that verdict philosophically continue to
New York Freeman tcolored)
SMALL. farms in a district mean great many
adyantages-better roads, frequent schools, bet
ter prices for produce, better cultivation, inn
proyed implements. lower taxes, and more fire.
ouent con installations among farmers for the ad-
yancement and protection of their interests; and
when low prices and pinching times come, the
small farm owner has decisive advantage
over the great proprietor; he weatners the storm
because he is ont of debt, and when it has passed
he is found still safe under his roof. while debt
mortgage and sherff's sale have swept the
great farmer off to another region.-St. Louis
Reuublican.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

Scott. Consul-general Phelan and Admiral Luca
The Cousul-general states that he had second
interview, alone, with the Minister of Fisheries
but that be can not say what it's was
He will not give az explanation OF the abandon
ment OF the idea of issuing circular to United
States fishermen, and tho only fact to be ascer
tanned is that the instructions prepared wers
torn up and the pieces scattered to the winds
It is asserted that the American authorities art
doing all they can towards keeping matters al
smooth as possible between the two countries
American fishermen boarded by officers of the
American warEhip Yautic have been warned
against violating the treaty the Canadiar
customs laws, and told that if they do they
must suffer the consequences.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

Ex-Governor FOSTER, of Ohio, is. said to
have given such careful attention to the de-
velopment of natural gas that, as a result, he
remembers the location of each and every gas
we'll in the United States and its daily out
put If this is the case the Ex-Governor
ought to be interviewed for the benefit of the
Indianapolis public, which would like to have
some definite facts and figures concerning the
wells within twenty miles of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

A SAN Francisco dispatch says Calfornians
expecting large parties of Eastern excur-
sionists this month and making extensive
preparations to entertain" them. To entertain
in this case probably means to fleece. 1t is an
old joke in Florida that the natives live on oys-
tiers and Yankees California oysters are poor,
but excursonists from the States are held in
high esteem. The annual overflow of travellers
with bank accounts seems to revive business and
booms the Pacific coast, in return for which
we get fresh reports of the attractions of the
country ana climate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

AN East Saginaw, Mich, dispatch says that
John G. Whittier's niece, who ran away from her
home in Danvers. Mass, few months ago, has
been taken in charge by relative and is on her
way East. Before leaving she explained that she
ran away because the two aunts with when she
m ade her home made her life unpleasant. Peo-
pie familiar with the peculiarties of the typical
New England aunt will not be swift TO risk their
money in nsuring that young woman a real
pleasant time on her return to the arms OK her
guardians.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

THE Charleston News and Courier dislikes
Higgins, not only because he is enemy to
gar, coarse creature. The News SEEMS to for
get that in thus stigmatizing Higgins it is
attacking its beloved Presidents left-hand
man. As loyal organ, it should have care.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

THE Georgia girl loves her hustle more than
her life. When the superintendent of factory
down there ordered young woman to remove
that article of attire because it placed her in
danger of getting caught in the machinery, she
fatty refused, and when the superintendent
went on the street that night she caused her
brothers to waylay him and nearly beat his
brains out Greater love hath woman than
this that she is willing to risk her life for a
"dress improver."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

THE Secretary of the Indianapolis Natural
gas Company IS evidently excited and per-
haps this condition of mind should be &C
cepted as sufficient explanation for a certain
vagueness as to figures and dates in his COM
munication in another column. However as
the Journal has frequently remarked, all the
people want is the gas, and they will have no
quarrel with the company that brings it to
thew frat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

IT is very gratifying to some Christian
brethren to know that the gate money taken
in on Sunday at the neighboring camp meet
ings of liberal amount; but great many
other brethren, equally devout but possibly
too "old-fashioned," are unable to derive any
satisfaction from the circumstance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

THE prudent citizen had better bottle up,
the hot air of these sweltering days. 1t is
probably the only natural heating gas obtain
able for long time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

THE international military encampment to
be held at Chicago in October is certain to
be attended by all the small boys and suscepti-
BILE young women within five hundred miles
of the place. The fifty drum majors will
prove u tremendous attraction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
The Inevitable Result.

Ph1adeIph1a PfeSS
John Swinton is left to return YEARLY to the
work he left This is the appointed round of Ia
hor observation-disclosures and self-sacrifcing men
to start it. schemers to manage it in seeming
success and at last to end il in failure. The
Knights of Labor organization has nearly run
this course, and the George movement will in it's
turn 60 through tho Same collapse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

The secretary of New England railroad
company has just celebrated his ninety ninth
birthday. The recent publication of the fact
that half dozen more editors eighty
years of age are in active duty in Boston ac-
counts satisfactorily for certain peculiarties OF
the press of the city. but it was not suspected
before that some of the railroads were slow from
the same cauSa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

A CHICAGO paper tells story about travel
ing man of that city which illustrates the condi-
ton Of affairs caused by the drought. The drum
mer represented a rubber house and carried a
full line of gossamers and gum boots. After
travelling over the parched district for a week or
more in a vair endeavor to take order. he for
warded his r. signation by wire and then re-
turned home by the fastest train.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

So many ministers of the gospel are going
wrong in various parts of the country these
days that it looks as if temperature higher
than ninety degrees was fatal to pastoral
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

NATURAL gas has been found in Min
nesota. If the ''strike" is within twenty
miles of Minneapolis it is safe fo,say that the
citizens of that enterprising Hwn. win be
heating their houses and cooking their din
ners with it before winter after next.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
For Exhibition.

Denver KepubI1can.
Nearly all the Western and Southern cities want
to obtain President Cleveland for exhi bition.
New Orleans offers to allow him superintend
a drawing of the Louisiana lottery an induce
ment to get him to go there There is nothing
mean about New Orleans hospitality.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

WILL Secretary Root say positively that, to
lae best of his knowledge and belief, there is
not to be a large advance in the local rates
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
Not the Same St. John.

Minneapolis Tribune.
The Tribune desires to make macnanimous
statement, to-wit The St John who assisted
McGarigie to escape is the st. John who
formerly led the Prohibition party and made
Kansas free whisky State This statement is
made in justice to the first mentioned Mr.. st.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
the same cause

A HEAVY drop in wallpaper is announced;
prices, it is said, promising to be lower than at
any time within ten years Those of in Iu-
dianapolis who have any money left after pay
ing our winter coal bills can paper our houses
this season or next.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09

THE seeker after natural gas in Indianapo-
lis will find it like the old stories of the "milk
sick"-"over in the next county"